Lever Carbine: .357 vs. .44, pigs and deer

[DogBonz]

I disagree

I think to be able to utilize the total advantage of the 357 in a carbine you should go with the powerful loads of the 357 for the carbine, but if you love your hand gun you will not do that. Pretty simple[/QUOTE

The main advantage will be with practice ammo, which could be used in both the carbine as well as the pistol. You are correct that you would not want to fire a lot of “heavy magnum” loads in the handgun, but the bulk of ammo fired would most likely be mild practice ammo. Having the same caliber reduces the cost of shooting. Hopefully, less expensive ammo will translate into more time spent shooting, thus making you a better shot, and you can have more fun in the process. This is especially true if you hand load. One set of dies instead of two. One box of bullets instead of two. One can of powder… You get my point.

 

[Harley Quinn]

But he does not reload

He mentioned he did not reload. So he is going to be paying the bigger bucks and he will have a chance of mixing and hurting the handgun.

No problem I believe the man has had ample information and will if he ever returns make the right decision for him based on this thread. Or not?
HQ

 

[ArmedBear]

Thanks all.

I wasn't thinking of using heavy loads in the revolver, at least not much. And it's a SAA replica, so it's got a lot of steel around the chambers and bore, since it's a .45LC gun with .357 holes drilled in it.

Anyway, I have to get into reloading brass (I do shotshells now), I guess. And if I do, .44 Magnum is probably as good a choice as any, except for CAS or something.

No free lunch, I guess.

 

[115grfmj]

ummmm....

Not sure how many times more powerful (does it really matter guys?)
but S&B 158gr jsp gets around 1250fps from my 4" 686, and 1900 fps from my
marlin 1894c........thats pretty punchy . Those are across my chrony at
7 feet so.......Whipping out the ballistic software......b.c. of .170 from
my 686 that 548 ft lbs of energy.....from my marlin thats 1300ft lbs of energy . Thats just a warm factory loading. I've tried the Buff bore stuff, I got almost 2300 fps (between 2250-2280 dev.) Thats 1824 ft lbs of energy

Didn't ya just know some geek would whip out the balistics